081029: Four Seasons Resort Hualalai Offers Sustainable Weddings

Whether you’re looking for carbon credits, locally-grown foods, or a responsible reception for your wedding, you’ll find many green options at Hawaii’s Four Seasons Resort Hualalai. The resort’s new Sustainable Nuptials Package offers a special and memorable wedding ceremony that’s also socially responsible.

Working with the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai wedding planner, couples customize the details of their package. To offset the carbon footprint of traveling to Hawai’i and staying at the resort, the package includes a carbon credit to one of several organizations in Sustainable Travel International or STI’s carbon offset portfolio. (Carbon Offset Portfolio currently consists of myclimate™ (Verified Emission Reductions and Certified Emission Reductions); Bonneville Environmental Foundation or BEF (Green Tags); and Conservation Carbon from Conservation International.)

All details of the ceremony and reception can involve the important concepts of recycle, re-use, and reduce ideas. The resort partners with local farmers and fisherman to create sustainable, regional, seasonal menus.

Outdoor weddings–with no air conditioning and/or electricity–are tops; you can also consider silk lanterns lit by compact florescent bulbs and clean-burning natural bees wax candles. For the reception, use biodegradable and sustainable bamboo plates, utensils as well as cocktail napkins and cups are used during the reception. The resort will donate your potted plants or flowers from local growers for centerpieces to local hospitals or elderly care establishments after your event.